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Walls and Wilson are both DCPS schools. So.... no she will just be another white kid who took some IB courses, but didn’t do that well on their IB exam.

Any college will look at Eastern’s college readiness index, which btw is 12.2%, their mathematics proficiency score (1%) and realize that any grad from eastern will probably fail out of college. They’ll look at kids who went to walls and Banneker and see someone who took the hardest courses you could take as a student, not someone who didn’t want to deal with a commute. Sorry there is no bonus for attending Eastern. [/quote]

I went to a pretty low rated HS and did very well in college admissions. The problem students from low-rated schools have often is that they don't have competitive SAT/ACT scores even if they're near the top of their class. But if you score well, colleges will look positively upon you. I think it's at least a neutral if not a positive factor, since you add a different perspective than the swarms of UMC suburban and private school kids do. If you've got a high SAT/ACT, colleges won't think that "any grad from eastern will probably fail out of college."[/quote]

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